Bee-smoker.



No. 798,982. PATENTED SEPT. 5, 1905. H. ROOT.

BEE SMOKE-R.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 24, 1905.

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HUBER ROOT, OF MEDINA, OHIO, ASSlUr-NOR TO THE A. l. ROOT COMPANY, OF MEDINA, OHIO.

BEE-SMOKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

\. Application filed May 24,1905. Serial No. 261,999.

lb (LU whom, t "may concern:

Be it known that I, HUBER Roo'r. of M edina, in the county of Medina, and in the State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bee-Smokers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a view, partly in side elevation and partly in section, of a bee-smoker embodying my invention.

In the use of bee-smokers as heretofore constructed, comprising a stove and a bellows for forcing air into and through the stove,

tion of the bellows tends to draw sparks, smoke, and soot from the stove into the bellows. These products of combustion will enter the bellows and damage it. so that the smoker soon becomes useless, and if there is no tube connecting the stove and the bellows there will be danger of tire or burning of the hands from the sparks sucked out of the stove by the bellows.

The object of my invention is to provide a smoker which will be free from the objections noted; and to this end my invention consists in the smoker having the construction substantially as herein specified and claimed.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated in the drawing there will be found a smoker of well-known construction, consisting of a stove in the form of a cylinder or barrel A and a bellows B, the stove and bellows being united by upper and lower brackets I), that are riveted at one end to the wall of the stove and at the other end are secured by bolts or screws E, that pass through the stationary board of the bellows and flanges on the brackets next said board, and nuts F. To lock the latter, thin plates or washers G are interposed between the nuts and the flanges, which at their lower edges engage the brackets and on their upper edges have each a lug or teat r that is turned or bent over to engage with the adjacent side of the nut. A short distance above the bottom of the stove there is a grate H for the support of the fuel to be burned to produce the smoke, and at a point between said grate and the bottom of the stove the wall of the stove has an opening through which passes a tube I, reaching to a point within the stove at or near the center of the stove in a diametrical direction and extending on the outside of the stove a short distance and having a lip or flange i, by which the tube is riveted to the lower bracket D, and thus secured in place. Said tube is open from end to end, and it is situated in line with an opening 5 in the stationary board of the bellows, through which air from the bellows is forced. It will thus be seen that there is a clear space between the bellows and the tube, so that smoke from the stove will not be drawn into the bellows. The tube is tapering in form, its large end being outside and its small end being inside the stove, which form, together with the position given the inthe back suction which occurs in the operaner end of the tube, prevents the suction back through the tube of sparks from the burning fuel on the grate. The taper form of the tube is important also in that it enables a tight joint between its exterior and the walls of the opening in the stove to be formed.

Besides the arrest of sparks or the prevention of the passage of sparks from the stove my invention results in a substantial decrease in the noise made by the smoker in operation and a substantial increase in the blast, for besides the air blowing directly from the bellows into the stove air outside the bellows will be forced or drawn into the stove.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a bee-smoker, the combination of a stove having a grate, a bellows and a sparkarresting tube made separate from the stove extending through an opening in the stove below the grate, a clcarspace existingbetween the tube and the bellows.

2. In a bee-smoker, the combination of a stove having a grate, a bellows and a tapering tube passing through an opening in the stove below the grate, a clear space existing between the outer end of the tube and the bellows.

3. In a bee-smoker, the combination of a stove having a grate, a bellows, a bracket extending between the stove and bellows, one end of the bracket being attached to the stove and the other to the bellows, and a spark-arresting tube passing through an opening in the side of the stove beneath the grate and fastened to said bracket, a clear place existing between the outer end of the tube and the bellows.

t. In a bee-smoker, the combination of a stove having a grate, a bellows and a tube I O beneath the grate with its inner end at or near the center of the stove, and its outer end provided with a flange or lip that is fastened to said bracket, a clear space existing between the outer end of the tube and the bellows.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing I 5 have hereunto set my hand.

HUBER ROOT Witnesses:

' FRANK SPEL'LMAN,

E. R. RooTa 

